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2 days ago · Income derived from fines and debt collection as well as fees, a common subject in the medieval prison literature. One important fee, agevolatura , was to ameliorate daily prison life and was the most substantial source of income.
3 days ago · The first page of the account of 1585–86, which would have contained similar information for that year, is missing but there is no reason to think that the relationship of these three sources of income would have been very different.
1 day ago · Just as in late medieval depictions of the parable, the woodcut also shows the reversal of the fortunes of Dives and Lazarus at the time of divine judgment. 44 A celestial sword hangs over the head of the rich glutton, ready to inflict the eternal agony of damnation, and a holy crown hovers above the poor beggar, denoting the heavenly riches ...
3 days ago · It was not, however, granted a prison by the Crown, and the first clear allusion to its prison is to be found in 1278-9. The butchers of the city then guarded it by night and the bailiffs by day. (fn. 4) The building already bore its later name, the kidcot(e), a name no doubt attached to it in jest, (fn. 5) at the time when the 14th-century ...
4 days ago · They were first instituted in the early middle ages, and originally called for the local parish to receive one tenth of the agricultural produce of each parishioner, or a similar proportion of the production 'output' for artisans, essentially acting as a tax on income.
1 day ago · IV. What role did brewing play in Medieval society? Brewing played a significant role in Medieval society, both socially and economically. Monasteries were often the centers of brewing, and beer was an important source of income for them. Beer was also a staple drink for all classes of society, from peasants to nobility.
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1 day ago · A prison, [a] also known as a jail, [b] gaol, [c] penitentiary, detention center, [d] correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where people are confined against their will and denied their liberty under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes.
